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EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove J -- Chorus 2
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0 / 71 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCBAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parents on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 9:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
9:57
DIFFICULTY
68/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 55 and 85-90, and 5 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Parents -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 33, 34, 40, 41, 59, 60 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-155 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Parents?

76 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Parents hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 9:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Parents?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 33, 34, 40, 41, 59, 60 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED